topic Re: data encryption in Enterprise Geodatabase in Data Management Questions

data encryption in Enterprise Geodatabase

NicoleSulzberger — Tue, 30 May 2017 10:45:23 GMT

Hello,

I need to manage sensitive data in my Enterprise Geodatabase, and would like to encrypt the data. I am aware that Esri is -supporting TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) both for MS SQL Server and Oracle, but with TDE the Database-Administrator is still able to see the data in the database, which is not acceptable in our case.

Is Esri supporting this kind of encryption, e.g. row based encryption (Oracle), Oracle Label Security (Oracle) or "Always Encryped" (MS SQL Server)?

thanks for your help!

kind regards, Nicole

Re: data encryption in Enterprise Geodatabase

RafaelFernandesdeSouza — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:19:46 GMT

Hello, @NicoleSulzberger!
The answere to your question, unfortunetly is no. Esri do not support this type of encryption yet.

Other options for encryption are this:

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/geodatabases/manage-sql-server/connections-encrypted.htm

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)—ArcMap | Documentation (arcgis.com)

Best Regards,

Rafael F Souza

Re: data encryption in Enterprise Geodatabase

Marco_AlejandroBonilla — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:32:22 GMT

@RafaelFernandesdeSouza is there any workaround that you know of to store encrypted data in a geodatabase? Ex. Credit card numbers?

Re: data encryption in Enterprise Geodatabase

MichaelWainright2 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:17:39 GMT

Does anyone have any updates on this topic?
We are using Postgresql, which does not have TDE out of the box.